Yet the truth is that City would probably have been coasting by that point if the referee, Michael Oliver, had not turned down three separate penalties, at least two of which could be accurately described as certainties.

[…]his lordship was out of humour. That was the way Chollacombe described as knaggy an old gager as ever Charles had had the ill-fortune to serve. Stiff-rumped, that's what he was, always rubbing the rust, or riding grub, like he had been for months past.

(transitive) To represent by drawing; to draw a plan of; to delineate; to trace or mark out.

to describe a circle by the compasses; a torch waved about the head in such a way as to describe a circle

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